Make with kids: Annabel Karmel’s farm animal cupcakes

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The kids are going to love making these farm animal cupcakes. To make a batch of 12 farm animal cupcakes it will take 50 mins to prepare and decorate and 20 mins to cook. This recipe makes 3 different farm animals; pigs, dogs and sheep using marshmallows and other sweet goodies.

Annabel Karmel says: ‘They really are the sweetest animals on the farm!’ To decorate the cakes you will need: Marshmallows, biscuits, chocolate buttons, colourful sweets and tubes of writing icing. Not forgetting some food colouring for the pink pig cupcakes!

Ingredients

For the cupcakes:

2 large eggs

1 tsp vanilla essence

110g caster sugar

110g soft margarine

110g self–raising flour

For the icing:

110g butter, softened

250g icing sugar, sifted

1tbsp water

Food colouring

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Recipes taken from My Favourite Recipes by Annabel Karmel (published by DK, £8.99)

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Step 1

To make this cupcake recipe, heat the oven to 180˚C/ 350˚F/Gas 4. Beat together the eggs, vanilla, caster sugar, margarine, and flour.

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Step 2

Line a bun tin with paper cake cases, and half fill each case with the cake mixture.

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Step 3

Bake for 18–20 minutes. When done, the cakes will rise up, turn golden in colour, and spring back when pressed.

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Step 4

For the icing, beat the butter until creamy. Gradually beat in the icing sugar. Then beat in the water. If you’re making the pigs add a few drops of red or pink food colouring for pink icing.

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Step 5

To make the marshmallow sheep, spread a thick layer of butter icing over the top of the cupcakes.

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Step 6

Stick on marshmallows – large for heads, halved for ears, and mini ones for woolly coats. Use writing icing for glue.

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Step 7

To make puppy cakes, stick biscuit ears on icing and use chocolate buttons and sweets for eyes and noses.

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Step 8

To make piggy cakes, stick on a nose made from a large marshmallow and ears made from slices of marshmallow.

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Step 9

Draw the faces on your animals using writing icing squeezed from a tube.